₦airaland Forum

Odukol:
nice one wow finally its tym for a christian man to occupy d osun governorship seat hit like if u want a christian and share for muslim

Nincompoop

DEXTROVERT:
Nepotism
at
its
Peak

North alone: 12
South West : 3

Even
South East is 6

U are so daft.
North=NE + NW + NC = 12/3= 4each. And SE has 6.

irepnaija4eva:
Hmm..lolz...IGBOS AFTER NAME CHECKING BE LIKE...

Hahahaha, potopotors no go talk the lopsided ooo

abelprice:
This is why d Muslim think Christianity is a joke.... because d Christians make joke out of it..... you will neva see d Islamic religion creating a scene like this one in deir movie.. ...

Seriously, Christianity is a joke and that is why it has been trying to label Islam as a terror religion buh I fink Muslims don't care.

Tamass:
I give up man! you guys are just too difficult. So far i know i am a muslim and my religion kicks against violence

Surest boi

Tamass:
This your derailed mindset shaa..well life is eazi..#soothe yourself

Thumps up

Gustavo404:
The true meaning of Islam, the religion of peace ✌�

HPS3 before u quote me lemme quote u

If them muslim terrorists throw bomb, u go shout and shout
Them dey protest against terrorism now, u still dey shout and shout

Wettin una want?!!

It's never been about muslim terrorists bombing everywhere, it's always been about christians seeing muslims as their rival, wrong??

Oh! My! God! U are a fuc.king genius! Wow! U are right!

Promismike:
Potential terrorists. Provoke them and you will see the stuff they are made off. We know it's a camouflage.


Every Muslim is a potential terrorist. I'm yet to see a Muslim who is not violent and a bigot.

Ur frustration.

See this pig ooo, Obama's wife looted US money?

See rectangular heads everywhere with frustration. Proudly Afonja Christian, u flatos can't divide we Omo kaaro oojiire, we are one. So, stop mentioning Yoruba Muslims just say Afonja and we are cool. Pls has anyone seen Kanu?

netflicks:
Am not afonja Bt I dnt knw why I love this man... he is far much better than all those old lazy igbo red heads who can not even speak out when death is knocking on their doors.

Hahaha, so rectangular head is telling us that we Omo kaaro oojiire love Chukwudi Fayose. OYO ooo
He is ur hero and loved by rectangular heads not Yorubas.

Abimbola Adelakun

aadelakun@punchng.com

The Christian Association of Nigeria is, for the billionth time, raising sanctimonious alarms against the perceived Islamisation of Nigeria. This time, the charge is that the Federal Government wants to sneak in an “Islamisation” agenda through floating a Sukuk Islamic bond. CAN, with a righteous indignation, claims that Nigeria is a secular country and the government ought to be taking a neutral stance in matters of religion. It argued that that using legal mechanisms to promulgate the issuance of Sukuk is tantamount to a violation of the secular spirit of the Nigerian constitution and should, therefore, be nullified.

The Minister of Information and Culture, Lai Mohammed, reportedly responded that the bond was necessitated by the need for the inclusion of those whose religion opposes interest-yielding initiatives. Mohammed’s response — and the responses by Muslim Rights Concern and National Supreme Council for Islamic Affairs- shows that perhaps what Nigeria is dealing with, is not so much a religionisation but a lack of ideological anchor. Nigeria seems unable to decide which mammon it wants to worship — secularism (in its ideal sense) or multi-religiosity. Consequently, its liberalism is selective; calibrated to pander to a political base as it is politically expedient.



That said, it is almost laughable that CAN, after profiting from the politics of religion in Nigeria, now insists Nigeria is a secular country and religion must be divorced from our cultural life. The body could have been more credible if they made a case for secularism during the last administration and cautioned President Goodluck Jonathan when he was virtually making policy pronouncements from the pulpit each time he visited one church or another. Jonathan should have been “neutral” on matters of religion and not grant some church leaders, as it was reported by the media, waivers to import items into the country, or publicly kneeling before them, or ship them to Israel for prayer meetings on our national kobo. CAN’s president and Jonathan’s so-called spiritual adviser, Pastor Ayo Oritsejeafor, almost turned Aso Rock into an extension of his church. Did CAN consider such a blatant display of religiosity a form of Christianisation too? If a Muslim president had done all that Jonathan did, CAN would have yelled Islamisation!


CAN should know that both Christians and Muslims in Nigeria want the same thing — their religious culture being the dominant one. Historically, as the Abrahamic religions have a totalising tendency, both religions will relentlessly strive to usurp each other and their animosity will probably never cease. In Nigerian terms, it means that our elites will garner goodwill based on which religion they subscribe — or pretend to- and while in office, they will have to play the sides that guarantee them winning the next election.

The easier solution would be to argue for a society that is genuinely religiously neutral, but no one has managed to achieve that ideal just yet. Even the societies that once took it for granted that they have “killed” God have regressed to the primacy of religion to settle old scores. It turns out that God was never dead; he only went into a remission. While I understand that CAN needs to manage its own space in the polity, and their constant cries of “Islamisation” is a tactic of achieving this, I think they need to do better than this habit of crying wolf frequently.


CAN, indeed, has been fighting Islamisation for a while. It pushed back when, in 1986, the military dictator, Ibrahim Babangida, tethered Nigeria to the Organisation of Islamic Countries as, supposedly, an observer nation. In 2014, CAN asked people to fast and pray for 31 days to combat Islamisation. While it drew many examples from the tense political situation in the country — Boko Haram, Fulani herdsmen, the religious debacle in Osun State- it also pointed out that the governorship candidates of the South-West APC were “80 per cent Muslims” even though Christians constitute about half of the population in the region.

During the 2015 election, one of the biggest fears peddled around was that Candidate Muhammadu Buhari, if he became President, would Islamise Nigeria. Last year, a prominent lawyer in the country contended that the staffing of Nigerian security agencies with Muslims was proof that Islamisation was creeping into the country and would soon override our national character. The menace of the Fulani herdsmen too has been bandied as an example of impending Islamisation. When Buhari included Nigeria in the coalition of Muslim-Arab nations to fight Islamic terrorism, it was also allegedly part of “Islamisation.”

Last year, when the National Assembly proposed to amend laws to increase the jurisdiction of Sharia Courts of Appeal regarding criminal cases, it was further cited as evidence of looming “Islamisation.” On the supposed project of Islamisation and the financial sector, we have been here before. In 2011, when the idea of Islamic banking was advanced, CAN alleged that it was part of the treacherous plot to Islamise Nigeria. Then CBN governor, Lamido Sanusi, a Muslim Fulani from one of Nigeria’s Islamic enclaves, was branded a proponent of Islamisation even though Nigeria had a Christian president. Six years later, we are still fighting against the Islamisation of the Nigerian financial sector. Earlier this year, CAN cried out that the Christian Religious Knowledge and Islamic Religious Knowledge have been synchronised in the school curriculum, and that it would lead to “Islamisation.” Lawmakers had to accede and reverse what was an otherwise sensible initiative.

Nigeria, meanwhile, is not the only country where the fear of Muslims is raging. On a global scale, Islamophobia is trending in the hearts of the people who are convinced that Muslims are coming to put an end to their civilisation. Current acts of Islamic terrorism have enabled societies which themselves have practised some of the most atrocious acts around the world to tuck in their own unpleasant history and unleash the feral instincts of their being against others’ unfolding history.

Today, the foreboding cry of “The barbarians are at the gate!” has been replaced by “The Muslims are at the gate!” That moral panic is shaping political terrains and ideological re-configurations around the West. In countries like India and Myanmar (former Burma) too, Muslims are being persecuted and hunted down like animals. Nigeria is implicated in this global wave of Islamophobia through the particularities of her own history and culture.

But is Islamisation a legitimate fear in Nigeria that warrants CAN making ear grating cries of “Islamisation” at every turn? I doubt it. While CAN keeps pointing us to the examples of countries that were systematically Islamised over the centuries, it seems to forget that our historical trajectories are different. Years of colonialism and Christianisation have not totally eroded our pre-colonial cultural instincts, why keep frightening us with spectres of a country where we will be forced to bow before the same God? Even western nations, with migration of Muslims into their region, can never be fully Islamised. Cultural contact with masses of Muslims (and any religion) will reshape western culture one way or the other but a world dominated solely by Islamists is not going to happen. There are too many contending forces to make this a possibility. Islam itself is not static; it is going through what some critics have called a “westernisation.” Recently, Saudi Arabia just allowed women to drive (shortly after allowing them to vote) and some of their conservatives think they are acceding to western criticisms on women’s rights. East or west, the world is undergoing changes, and the terms under which Islamisation can happen are no longer that simple.

If CAN wants to maintain its share of public space, it should devote its energy to more urgent issues of social justice and not this pathetic plaint of “Islamisation.” When you live in a country where your life is discounted, where prospects of self-fulfilment and self-realisation are scanty, “Islamisation” is the least of your problems. How worse can Islamisation be for a Nigeria already living in a dystopia?.

deariekay:
@sonature, you will prefer him na abi,when he was appealing to your mumu kanu , the fool was gallivanting around. Na military una need.so that you guys head go correct. When obasanjo clear odi village nothing happened,if kanu family like let Dem go icc ,or fcc ,tabi fifa na Dem Sabi.

Doyin2:
This is the crux of the matter!

Fayose,the suspected criminal is playing sentimental games against plausible arrest and prosecution,such that very gullible mumus would cite victimization as a result of his presidential ambition.

U spark my mind bro.

12345baba:
how come he is the governor

Ask Jonathan.

alizma:
Tompolo is on the run, Asari Dokubo's network is bad, one hardly hear his voice this day, Skekau has lost his caliphate and now we can't say for sure if Kanu was the "lady" that cross border to Cameroon last weekend or not. This is the kind of president I will vote for come 2019 not the one that will always go to the scene of avoidable crime to shed tears like woman when he could have take action to prevent such crime..

I love this piece.

FortifiedCity:
Atiku should just go and sit down

Meanwhile I need to pour out my heart:
The most hypocritical President in the world, Buhari illegally sent his Fulani army to shoot and maim innocent and unarmed civilians in the SE just because they are demanding for self independence.

He has always shown his hatred just because he is low in thinking and can't stand on his own. You do not expect so much from a man with no conscience and human wisdom. So I will let that pass.

My issue is with those ones who are rejoicing that some people's right were trampled in broad daylight. The hausas, I really Pity them because the fulani has subdued them to the point where they have no power of their own. They are simply used to fulfill the wishes of the fulanis who originally are not Nigerians but are wanderers who settled here and somehow established themselves here. I pity them really. I think they are basically doing the bidding of their masters.

As for the Yorubas who rejoice at the army invasion, I will call them my second brothers because truly they are; brothers who rejoice at the pain of a brother, brothers who prefer alliance with the common enemy to defeat his brother, brothers who is in an imaginary battle for wealth with his brother, therefore he sees every oppression against his brother as an advantage for him to surpass him in wealth acquisition, brothers who would want to do something but are too timid to set the pace but when his brother intitates it,he sees it as an affront to him, therefore he wants his brother's idea subdued. What a brother.

As for the few Igbos who are rejoicing, they are simply wayward sons, prodigal sons whose father calls and prays that he gets wisdom. They are the judas but I Pray they do not commit suicide.

What goes around comes around. If you are happy that a blood sucker invaded your region and killed, raped and destroyed properties all in the name of silencing cries for self determination, remember that tomorrow, you may cry but there will be non to hear your cry because all those who would have stood for you, you watched them killed without speaking against it.

Karma is a ......

And who told u we are ur brothers Stop dreaming!

Chascop:
if alone Ayo Fayose can quench the hunger in Naija, I see no reason why many won't vote him.

he's not the best but he's Better

Pls give facts.

aolawale025:
What a yeye news

Igbo sighted.

Ganiyat72:
Although, i am a yoruba muslim, but i must admitt that FFK is apt & correct on this one.

Bros, u as a Igbo Christian, FFK is ur Hero. And for we Omo kaaro oojire, ffk is a bastar**d.

In this week alone,

*Buhari orders payment of N290bn civil servants' outstanding salaries/allowances accumulated since 2007!

*Buhari reaches back to 2003 to pay #45bn for former staff of Nigeria Airways of gratuities and other retirement benefits.

*Power generation hits 7001.

*PMB got 200 armoured fighting vehicle from Jordan to tighten Nigeria Security.

*ASUU, NASU, SSANU, ULC & Resident Doctors have SUSPENDED STRIKE

Now hear the comments of the world leaders about Him; .

*Ban Ki-moon to Buhari: You are highly respected by world leaders, including myself. Your person has given your country a positive image.

*CNN described BUHARI as the Africa President.

* Donald Trump: How I wish African leaders are like you.

*PMB is the number 10 most talked about world leader in the just concluded UNGA in New York

What a bad week for wailers and their leaders.

God Bless Nigeria.

Stoicbaba:
32 - The best I could do

No offence but Wong sir, u av repetitions. Check my solution.

Very few ppl got it, nawa ooo, reasoning no easy sha.
20 is the right answer.
Let save the house ooo, see below:

Wow, going places. Congratulations Heroin, making Nigeria proud.

Cool

Kings1464:
I have a challenge i will love you to address.
Picked my device on Thursday, N-health was inscribed on the device casing but i later found out that it was the N-teach App that was installed for me instead that of the N-health. Though the profile in the App bears my name, i am an N-health Volunteer. My date of Birth was also gotten wrong. But everything is correct whenever i login to the NPVN portal via www.npvn.npower.gov.ng. Please what does this mean for me? Thank you.

Fire on with the usage joor

AutosBay:
I got an sms, but I wasn't given any device today at Mtn collection center festac town Lagos were I was told to go and pick it up today between 9am to 4pm

Why

Franco93:
I have been asking this question but no one wants to answer.

Why do married Muslims exonerate their wives from going to mosque?

And u are using an Android phone?
Ask Google now! Everything about Islam is on internet.

I want to join Lagos what'sApp group, pls any link?